Walker Street - Fire Station

Fire Station and UDC Offices

Walker Street was the centre of civic administration in Victorian Wellington and by the end of the Nineteenth Century, this building was home to the organisation that governed the entire town. Wellington Urban District Council was formed in 1895, after a national system of modern local councils was introduced, and presided over local affairs until its abolition in 1974. The Council chamber was situated on the first floor, while its offices stood in the whitewashed single storey building across the road.

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